News Flash: Sedan will debut in Frankfurt
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Maybe it will be ready sooner rather than later. A maserati quatroporte is being developed with slightly detuned version of the Scaglietti engine. This vehicle has been spied around Porsche factory. Apparently Porsche is helping Maserati develop the car with the new engine. Maybe a joint venture??
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Originally posted by Garey Cooper
Incidentally Porsche DOES RACE. The 996 series race car is developed DIRECTLY from the car that we all drive. The 996 series racers even won OVERALL at Daytona two years ago against the new prototypes, and this year showed very strongly regardless of class. I think it is possible that we even get more benefit from the R&D side given the racing is done on near production model cars.
Incidentally Porsche DOES RACE. The 996 series race car is developed DIRECTLY from the car that we all drive. The 996 series racers even won OVERALL at Daytona two years ago against the new prototypes, and this year showed very strongly regardless of class. I think it is possible that we even get more benefit from the R&D side given the racing is done on near production model cars.
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Originally posted by quartermile
wow, would be nice if it has a 500hp twin turbo motor from the Cayenne. This thing will likely kill the M5 in performance. Looks to me like BMW wants to be MB lately and Porsche is going after the BMW business. If so, goodbye BMW!!
When is the Frankfurt show?
wow, would be nice if it has a 500hp twin turbo motor from the Cayenne. This thing will likely kill the M5 in performance. Looks to me like BMW wants to be MB lately and Porsche is going after the BMW business. If so, goodbye BMW!!
When is the Frankfurt show?
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From AutoWeek
Porsche Panamera: Concept version of automaker's fourth model line due this fall
Porsche’s anticipated fourth model line has a name: Panamera. Registered by Porsche at the same time as the Cayman moniker it is applying to the upcoming Boxster-based coupe, the new name is expected to grace a concept version of the car, which insiders describe as a combination of coupe and sedan, at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
Due out in 2008, the Panamera has been conceived as successor to the 928. Designed with space for four adults, it is also tipped to come clothed in a four-door body in a move that will pitch it into direct competition with cars like the Mercedes-Benz CLS and Maserati Quattroporte.
Secrecy surrounds the mechanical basis for the new car, though the Stuttgart rumor mill suggests Porsche chairman Wendelin Wiedeking has forged links with Volkswagen on a new rear-wheel-drive platform program in a move similar to that undertaken with the Cayenne and Touareg. Volkswagen chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder is interested in adding a new rear-wheel-drive model to the Volkswagen lineup between the Passat and Phaeton, and after the recent breakdown in talks with Maserati, it seems additional cooperation with Porsche may be in the cards.
Power for the new car is set to come from the same 4.5-liter V8 engines as those offered on the Cayenne. They include a naturally aspirated version with 340 hp and a turbocharged unit with 450 hp. An even more powerful model with more than 500 hp is also in the pipeline. Up to 20,000 examples of the Panamera are expected to roll annually from Porsche’s Leipzig factory in Germany, where it will be produced alongside the Cayenne.
Porsche’s anticipated fourth model line has a name: Panamera. Registered by Porsche at the same time as the Cayman moniker it is applying to the upcoming Boxster-based coupe, the new name is expected to grace a concept version of the car, which insiders describe as a combination of coupe and sedan, at the Frankfurt motor show in September.
Due out in 2008, the Panamera has been conceived as successor to the 928. Designed with space for four adults, it is also tipped to come clothed in a four-door body in a move that will pitch it into direct competition with cars like the Mercedes-Benz CLS and Maserati Quattroporte.
Secrecy surrounds the mechanical basis for the new car, though the Stuttgart rumor mill suggests Porsche chairman Wendelin Wiedeking has forged links with Volkswagen on a new rear-wheel-drive platform program in a move similar to that undertaken with the Cayenne and Touareg. Volkswagen chairman Bernd Pischetsrieder is interested in adding a new rear-wheel-drive model to the Volkswagen lineup between the Passat and Phaeton, and after the recent breakdown in talks with Maserati, it seems additional cooperation with Porsche may be in the cards.
Power for the new car is set to come from the same 4.5-liter V8 engines as those offered on the Cayenne. They include a naturally aspirated version with 340 hp and a turbocharged unit with 450 hp. An even more powerful model with more than 500 hp is also in the pipeline. Up to 20,000 examples of the Panamera are expected to roll annually from Porsche’s Leipzig factory in Germany, where it will be produced alongside the Cayenne.
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Re: News Flash: Sedan will debut in Frankfurt
Originally posted by Eric (Plug Guy)
It's a real car, right now.
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It's a real car, right now.
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I would love to have a my S Yellow ia600, red Porsche sedan, and may be keep the ML55, or get a use black or silver Cayenne Turbo or V6....
...I like the Boxter or Cayman but they look to little for me.
